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Cedar county news February 22, 1951
Old wall clock has interesting history
Wynot-on the dining room wall of the farm home of Mrs. Edith Klopping north of
town hangs a unique clock which along with the other clocks of the same design
has a history, the story of which has just come to life.
Mrs. Klopping's clock was given to her 40 years or more ago by her young
nephew, Dr. The rest the Archibald Nissen of Boston. A story about this
design of clock was printed in a recent issue of Life magazine. 40 years ago
daily paper in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, offered its readers and premiums
one of which was a large massive wall clock for 30 coupons and a the the gave
the the the a the small cash payment, amount the not specified. Premiums were
given out to the amount of several hundred, and do I go and the paper forgot
all about the whole thing. Then last month but ever received an envelope
containing 30 crumbling yellow coupons and the and letter from a man in new
York asking for one of the clocks. The circulation manager who had made the
original offer was called from retirement and a citywide hunt was starteded
for one of those premium clocks. Several were found, but the owners refused
to give them up. And finally the manager found one in his mother's attic and
sent it to the man in New Yor, and the man admitted the source of the old
coupons. He works for company microfilming back issues of a paper.
Mrs. Klopping said her nephew received the clock is a premium from an Omaha
paper. Since the story and pictures of the clocks were printed in Life
magazine, a Sioux city man wrote the Sioux city Journal that he had received
one of the clocks from that paper in 1909 and that it's still kept a good
time.
Mrs. Klopping was given the clock 40 years ago, she was told "There is not a
thing the matter with the it, that only it won't run." She had the it
overhauled and it kept good time all these years. The clock is a plain open
face model a square of dark wood and the pendulum hangs in the open in front
of three narrow panels of the same dark wood.